Hello Simmers!
How are you liking Izzy’s Shop? I would like to share my feedback and concerns.
After seeing all the cool items you could potentially get in Izzy’s Shop I decided to give it a try myself. I bought a bunch of Fashion Gems using SimCash with IRL money. After trying multiple times for a good design, my overall satisfaction wasn’t great. It is very costly to redesign items if you don’t get anything you like. 16 Fashion Gems is a bit outrageous considering you can just claim what you get and retry for 20. I understand it should cost more if you “pin” and item, but 16 Gems “no pins” is a lot.
I get that these are mostly cosmetic items. EA has a right to charge whatever they feel is fair for these designs, but it seems that free to play users are at a severe disadvantage. I would be very happy if they lowered the “no pin” cost to retry a design. Currently it is only a 4 Fashion Gem discount between retrying a design, or creating a whole new design.
What are your thoughts? I would love to hear them!
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I wish they'd add a way to choose genders, or maybe set it for the gender of the Sim you send. My primary Sim is female but she has a male roommate and I'd like to get him some cool threads too. Or maybe have some items that can fit either gender. Also wish it wasn't so expensive to retry the design. You can earn 14 gems a week just by giving out 3 stickers, so I've built up quite a bit but doesn't really seem worth going to Izzy's if I can't find male outfits as well as female.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
First roll was male bracelet (I didn't fully realize it was male at the time) with a trait I might use after I unlock it.
Second roll was a trenchcoat of undetermined gender, turned out to be male, with the exact same trait and effect as the bracelet.
I was unable to afford a Re-roll, because 4X is < 56 gems.
I now have 2 male items that boost the same trait. There is a trash button I can press, and this will be the first to go when I reach total Izzy item limit. Duplicates of a food enhancing trait are not so useful when sims are unable to share stories/careers/hobbies.
How many gems get refunded when you trash an Izzy outfit?
How do I like Izzy's shop? I don't like it very much. It is gambling.
It is more than cosmetic as the traits can help your sims out. It is very expensive to use it, and no control over what you get and if you can use it or not.
I think at their current prices, of being able to afford 1 roll every 10 days, we should have some more control, either pick a trait or gender, and let the rest be random. Or reduce the prices so we get more shots at something useful.
Another option would be delayed re-rolling. So you can double check that the effect or trait is something new that you want or if it's a duplicate. Or some way to recycle existing duplicates.
A re-roll of 16, when it costs 20 just to start, why would you spend that? Instead of re-rolling you can just get another whole item in 2 days worth of ToDo at that price.
Also, it is extremely disappointing when you end up with duplicates. I only have 5 Izzy items, and 2 of them are the same wrap shirt with the same effect, just in different colors...what a waste. I've seen some really neat items walking around my neighborhood, so I know the variety is there. Just wish the random item generator was a little smarter, and took in to account what you have.
You need to post more in the forum so you can get rid of the New Member tab -- I'll give you a Like to help you along. Blame spammers in the early days of the forum who signed up and all they did was post filthy pictures.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
> You need to post more in the forum so you can get rid of the New Member tab -- I'll give you a Like to help you along. Blame spammers in the early days of the forum who signed up and all they did was post filthy pictures. :|
thank you for explanation)
How many gems get refunded when you trash an Izzy outfit?
I have trashed a several Izzy's outfits and each time i got 3 gems for one outfit
Depressing isn't it. Thats why we should get to choose how we want are animations to be but instead we get ripped off & left being unsatisfied & then we gotta pay for retry when retry should be free & also it should be free to retry as many times u want until satisfied. It's so unfair
It seems that if I go to Izzy with a,female, I get a male item and the only time I got a female item was when I first used Izzy with the male that has since retired. I hadn't even created my 1st female sim at the time so getting the female item prompted me to make his wife.
Now I have a daughter and no Izzy item for her to wear.
/grrr
I’m not a big fan of izzy shop, I’ve seen a couple of stuff around that look nice, but most likely the trait they give is useless, which is another problem